Renoir

[ ren-wahr, ren-wahr; French ruh-nwar ]

/ ˈrɛn wɑr, rɛnˈwɑr; French rəˈnwar /

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noun

Jean

[zhahn], /ʒɑ̃/, 1894–1979, French film director and writer.

his father, Pierre Au·guste

[pyer oh-gyst], /pyɛr oʊˈgüst/, 1841–1919, French painter.

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How to use Renoir in a sentence

The real hell of life, as Jean Renoir once observed, is that everyone has their reasons.
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Picasso's a genius, Matisse is great and Renoir has fabulous moments (if not in the mass of pink nudes at the Barnes).
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He also served as the pipeline between the moneyed class and a variety of Impressionists: Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, and Seurat.
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We first met at her Georgetown mansion, filled with stunning Impressionist art: Renoir, Picasso, Degas.
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They create a world equal to the worlds of Renoir or Hitchcock or Fellini.
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A great-granddaughter of Fragonard, she seems to have inherited his talent; Corot and Renoir forcibly appealed to her.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
There were in all six pictures—a tall glass filled with pale roses, by Renoir; a girl tying up her garter, by Monet.
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It was significant enough when he once said to Renoir, that it took him twenty years to find out that painting was not sculpture.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
Manet saw certainly far less colour than Renoir, for in the Renoir sense he was not a colourist at all.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley
In this sense he leads one to Renoir's way of considering nature which was the pleasure in nature for itself.
Adventures in the Arts|Marsden Hartley

British Dictionary definitions for Renoir

Renoir

/ (ˈrɛnwɑː, French rənwar) /

noun

Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1894–1979, French film director: his films include La grande illusion (1937), La règle du jeu (1939), and Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)

his father, Pierre Auguste (pjɛr oɡyst). 1841–1919, French painter. One of the initiators of impressionism, he broke away from the movement with his later paintings, esp his many nude studies, which are more formal compositions

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